Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Using Lynx -post_data option

[Foteos Macrides]

Louis Mandelstam <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>
>> do when seeking help.  Lynx through v2.5 mishandled such redirections
>> as expected by that script, but v2.6 handles it properly, and thus
>> yields an error status from the target of the redirection.  The
>
>Then that's my problem - I am using 2.5

        Lynx2-5 still mishandles the redirection, i.e., converts from
POST to GET and drops the content, as if it had gotten a 303, even though
it got a 302.  That's what the script is (incorrectly) expecting the
browser to do.  I just tried it from here with a lynx2-5 image, and it
worked, so that's not your problem.  Since I can't reproduce your problem
with lynx2-5, I don't have another guess on what it might be.

        But that FORM should be changed to use METHOD=GET, or its CGI
script should be changed to return a 303 instead of 302 status.

        If you've upgraded to v2.6, be sure to include the Composite
replacements, or lynx2-6mods.zip replacements, so you are offered an
option to treat the 302 as a 303, and can actually use that FORM.

                                Fote

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